Antonyms for discourteously


Grammar : Adv
Spell : dis-kur-tee-uh s
Phonetic Transcription : dɪsˈkɜr ti əs


Definition of discourteously

Origin :
  • 1560s; see dis- + courteous. Related: Discourteously.
  • As in rudely : adv impolitely
Example sentences :
  • Mutimer rose and addressed his visitor easily indeed, but not discourteously.
  • Extract from : « Demos » by George Gissing
  • On those occasions we moved from our chairs, not gently, but discourteously.
  • Extract from : « From Sea to Sea » by Rudyard Kipling
  • Then as though in tacit compliance with the suggestion he turned not discourteously to Carter.
  • Extract from : « Trusia » by Davis Brinton
  • Nay I am sure you will not leave me so discourteously, now I have provided for you.
  • Extract from : « Wit Without Money » by Francis Beaumont
  • I beg your pardon, Crackenfudge; I have treated you discourteously and badly—but you will excuse me.
  • Extract from : « The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain » by William Carleton
  • He was enough of a gentleman to know he had treated Madge discourteously, but he did not know how to apologize to her.
  • Extract from : « Madge Morton's Trust » by Amy D. V. Chalmers
  • All the idlers of Acquapendente—and they were many—assembled to gaze at us, but not discourteously.
  • Extract from : « Passages From the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2 » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • One could not refuse, discourteously and abruptly, a costly present like that; but it seemed a disaster to accept it.
  • Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • Curt, kurt, adj. short: concise: discourteously brief or summary.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) » by Various
  • Said Lily, impatiently and discourteously, "Who would not rather walk on such a night?"
  • Extract from : « Kenelm Chillingly, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Synonyms for discourteously

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